THE Port Ladies Association (PLASS), a grouping made up of female employees of the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority has presented items worth GHC7, 000 to the Newlife Orphanage at Nungua.
The items made up of five computers, toiletries, food items, five bags of rice, books, among others also came with a GHC1000 cash donation.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the events committee chairperson of PLASS, Ms Phillipa Amanda Armah, noted that, the donation forms part of the association’s annual outreach programme aimed at providing relief to the less privileged in society.
According to her, the association’s social responsibility strategy was to provide relief that sought to complement government’s poverty reduction measures.
She said, the decision of the association to support Newlife was informed by its location within the group’s catchment area, as PLASS had over the last 20 years of its formation provided assistance to deprived homes across the country.
Ms Armah called on district, municipal and metropolitan assemblies to extend support to institutions within their catchment area that were making strides to protect and provide for the nation’s human resources who had been orphaned through no fault of theirs.
The Founder of the orphanage, Mr Cephas Mensah Afortey, who received the items on behalf of the home, commended the association for the gesture.
According to him, the home which started some 10 years ago with two children currently host over 40 inmates who were picked from the streets in the metropolis.
He appealed for public support for the construction of a mobile library for the home to provide inmates’ access to reading and learning materials.
Mr Afortey said the construction of a modern school complex for the home to provide quality education to both inmates and non-resident deprived children was underway and called on the general public to support worthy causes that would go to improve the capabilities of the country’s human resources.
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